Léa Trommenschlager
Léa Trommenschlager earned her diplomas at the Strasbourg Conservatory under Henrik Siffert and Françoise Kubler, as well as at the Hanns Eisler Music School in Berlin under Norma Sharp. She also received mentorship from Claudia Solal, J. Chuilon, D. Fischer-Dieskau, C. Schäfer, D. Upshaw, and I. Bostridge.
In 2011, she was a laureate of the Aix-en-Provence Festival Academy.
In opera, she has appeared in Arthur Lavandier's opera De la Terreur des hommes, premiered in Paris with Le Balcon, as well as Cleopatra in Handel's Giulio Cesare in Berlin. In 2012, Léa continued the tour of "Cher Erik Satie," directed by Jean Bellorini. In 2013, she sang in Leah Muir's Wie man findet, was man nicht sucht at the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin (M. Höppner) and the title role in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos at the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris (B. Lazar) with Le Balcon, conducted by Maxime Pascal. She then sang Fiordiligi in Cosi fan Tutte (Margita Zalite) at the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin. In 2013, she joined the production of "Doppelgänger" (D. Marton) at the Schauspiel Stuttgart. In the summer of 2014, Léa was invited to perform in recital at the Aldeburgh Festival, the Samuel Beckett – Happy Days Festival with pianist Julius Drake, and the Aix-en-Provence Festival, where she sang Strauss's Four Last Songs under the direction of Alain Altinoglu.
In the song and song repertoires, she has had the pleasure of working with pianists Alphonse Cemin, Alexander Fleischer, Elizabete Šīrante, and Jonathan Ware. In spring 2015, her first recording of Schumann's Myrthen cycle was released on B Records, featuring bass-baritone Damien Pass and pianist Alphonse Cemin. The soprano has recently been heard at the Lille Opera, the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris, the Berlin Konzerthaus, La Folle Journée in Nantes, the Théâtre du Châtelet, the Théâtre des Salins in Martigues, the Stuttgart Schauspiel, La Criée in Marseille, and the Moscow Chekhov Festival.
After a tour of Germany this spring, where she performed Mahler's Fourth Symphony under the baton of J. Klumpp, Léa Trommenschlager is recording the radio opera Opus Magnus by composer Manuel Durão with the Podium ensemble. This season, after her debut at the Lille Opera for the creation of the opera Le Premier meurtre d’Arthur Lavandier, the soprano will be seen in Salzburg for “Jakob Lenz”, an opera by Wolfgang Rihm, then in a creation with the guitarist-composer Marc Ducret, but also in recital with Alphonse Cemin at the Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne. Léa will sing under the baton of Vincent Dumestre with the Poème Harmonique in Draghi’s opera Il Terremoto in Krakow as well as in the choreographic opera Initio by Tatiana Julien and Pedro Garcia-Velasquez at the Théâtre national de Chaillot.
